Berholdt Unfried and Eric Burton welcome contributions to a panel on Developing the Others, Improving Oneself at the international conference Development, Solidarity and the Mutual Interest, University of Vienna, December 2nd and 3rd, 2016. Deadline for application: May 20th 2016. For further details see Link.

In connection with the on-going research project “Personal cooperation in ‘development aid’ and ‘socialist aid’ in the context of system competition” (Austrian Science Fund/FWF), a second international gathering was held Vienna in December 2015 focussing on actors involved in relations between “East”, “West”, and “South”. For more details, see the conference report. [Eric Burton]

Vienna University’s Department of Southasian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies invited Prof. Najaf Haider from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, to give a lecture on Money and Inequality in Indo-Islamic Intellectual Traditions. Wednesday, March 16th, 4pm at the Seminarraum 3, Südasienkunde. For more details see Vortrag Haider.

The Graduate Programme for Transcultural Studies of the Cluster of Excellence ‘Asia and Europe in a Global Context’ welcomes applications for up to four doctoral scholarships. Application deadline: March 15, 2016. For further details see Link.

The regular colloquium hosted by our WISO has invited Jeremy D. Popkin from the University of Kentucky to talk about Liberty, Equality, and Slavery: New Research on the French and Haitian Revolutionary Conflicts about Race and Slavery. Wednesday, June 8th, 9am @ Seminarraum WISO.